By. Roderick Threats
Lindsay Clancy was tried by jury and judged by the media. On September 4, 2026, when her high-profile murder trial ended in a mistrial, her real trial began. Not in court. In the media.
Eleven white jurors spent seven days attempting to sway one lone jury member. A thirty-something year old Black man. He was the lone holdout on the jury who refused to concede and find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity.
When seven days of jury room bullying failed to break him, his white counterparts did what white-run institutions have done throughout American history when relentless pressure doesn’t work: They turned to the court of public opinion and used the system and media to weaponize an unabashed character assassination.
White Supremacy Tactic by Tactic Breakdown
When boiling race, power, and juridical lawbreaking down to its ugliest elements, what we witnessed in Plymouth, Massachusetts was not a simple juridical dispute. It was white majority rule in its rawest form: making an example out of a dissenting minority voice. Here’s how they did it:
1. Making the Jury Room an 11-on-1 Fight
The dynamics of an 11-to-1 jury room is inherently confrontational. All persuasion is leveraged against one person. But when the group of 11 is white, and the lone person is Black, it takes on a whole other level of hostility. For seven days, eleven jurors made the deliberation room about one man. When he refused to relinquish his legal opinion, the rest of the jury didn’t accept his civic responsibility as a juror. To them, he was willfully disobeying them.
2. Calling him “Uppity”
Look no further than the first words majority jurors said to the media immediately following the mistrial. On NBC10 Boston and CBS Mornings, Paula Devlin labeled him “very arrogant.” His attempts to examine the physical evidence were belittled by other jurors, one of whom, holding up an exercise band to explain injury mechanics, called him “playing detective” and “literally like a game of Clue.”
This is white supremacy language 101. The “uppity” Black man that doesn’t know his place. If a white juror holds their ground in deliberations, they’re celebrated for having “standards.” If a Black juror does it, they’re “arrogant,” obstructionist, and stupid.
3. Trying to Have Him Removed from the Jury
When gaslighting and attempted public shaming failed in the confines of the jury room, the majority took their efforts to extricate the juror from his legal authority. Notes were sent to the presiding judge suggesting he wasn’t following jury instructions, and the defense attorney actually filed a motion to remove him from the jury.
Translation: If we can’t get you to bend to our will, we will use the legal system to remove your voice.
4. Amplifying an Investigative Hit Piece
You can argue and litigate about the judicial process all you want, but the most explicitly white supremacist attack came after the trial was concluded. While court order kept jurors’ names anonymous, local news affiliates had people’s lives examined in forensic detail. This lone Black man’s eviction filings, dismissed lawsuits, and civil disagreements were weaponized and reported on major news networks. Millions of people now know about his past.
The majority jurors weren’t investigated. Not one media outlet took the time to dig through the other jurors’ financial backgrounds or past court history. But the second clause of that sentence should read: “White jurors weren’t investigated.” Because this smear campaign was expressly designed to find dirt on the one Black juror.
He Was Denied Due Process: The ability to defend oneself is a pillar of our justice system. But here’s the thing about attacking someone’s character in the press while they’re still under a gag order: They can’t speak on their own behalf. His entire life was hung up as Exhibit A while he remained legally silenced.
The Bottom Line
If we are promised “an independent jury of our peers” then what happens when that jury decides not to bend to the will of the white majority? When that one Black juror kept his head high and exercised his legal right to demand the prosecution prove their case… the veil was lifted.
Media attacks, jury bullying, and character assassination are a potent combination. And it serves as an unprecedented warning to any and every future minority juror who lets “standards” get in the way of groupthink. You better conform to the narrative, or we will come for you too.
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